19 — Ronald McDonald House and Charities of North Carolina awards a $25,000 grant to Southeast Elementary School for a new playground.

20 — Kinston man turns 95 on 68th anniversary of Battle of the Bulge.

20 — Four more charges are added to the list that former state legislator Stephen LaRoque of Kinston faces for allegedly misusing public funds earmarked for his lending business.

21 — Former KDPS officer indicted for second time on child sex charges.

21 — Kinston High School student Drew McPhatter admitted to Berklee College of Music in Boston.

22 — Drew McPhatter, a senior at Kinston High School, is accepted to the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

24 — Trudy B. Hardy prepares to take over as director of the Greene County Chamber of Commerce on Jan. 1.

26 — Less than a week before year’s end, Kinston records its first homicide of 2013. Dajuquon “DJ” dies at a Greenville hospital after police find him and another man on King Street with gunshot wounds to the upper body.

28 — Roland Best is nominated to fill the vacancy on the Lenoir County Board of Commissioners left by the election of George Graham to the N.C. House of Representatives.